Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop ideas and designs for moulds and casts
- Apply knowledge of different casting and moulding techniques to inform ideas and designs
- Research, adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches from other practitioners with consideration of intellectual property requirements
- Allow techniques and ideas to work together to inform each other
- Consider the professional potential and other criteria for work when developing ideas
- Refine and confirm ideas based on experimentation, research and collaboration with others
- Extend moulding and casting skills
- Evaluate the potential for new approaches to moulding and casting based on capabilities of techniques already used
- Adapt or introduce new materials, tools and equipment to achieve different outcomes
- Extend the capabilities of moulding and casting through experimentation
- Take account of safety and sustainability considerations in the moulding and casting process
- Make moulds and casts
- Set up or coordinate resource requirements according to safety or other workplace requirements
- Create moulds or casts using techniques and media selected from research and experimentation
- Review and refine ideas and approaches based on ongoing experiences with the production of work
- Use safe and sustainable work practices throughout the production process
- Evaluate own work